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Ikpeazu Visits Injured PDP Campaign DG In Hospital, Insists On Aggressor’s Prosecution (Photos)
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has vowed to bring to book the security operative who attacked and almost killed the Director General of the Abia State PDP Campaign Council, Rt Hon Barrister Chinedum Elechi over the weekend. Addressing the press when he visited Rt. Hon Elechi at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Umuahia, Governor Ikpeazu thanked God for sparing his life despite...
Lawmaker Slumps, Dies At Tinubu’s Jos Rally
Hon. Sobur Olayiwola Olawale, lawmaker representing Mushin Constituency II at the Lagos State House of Assembly, is dead. Known as Omititi in political circles, Olawale was among the politicians, who stormed Jos, Plateau State capital, for the kick-off of the campaign of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Details of his death were sketchy at...
Ohanaeze Floors Soludo Over Anti-Obi Comment
The apex socio-cultural organisation in Igbo land, the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has lashed out on Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, over his comment on a former Governor of the state and presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi. This was as the Igbo group said it had dragged Soludo to two deities in Igbo land,...
Ikpeazu Demands Full Investigation On Abia PDP’s Governorship Campaign DG Attack
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has condemned in the strongest terms, the attack on the Director General of the Professor Uche Ikonne Campaign Organization, Rt Hon Barrister Chinedum Elechi in Umuahia on Sunday. The Director General was attacked by an individual who is alleged to be an operative of the Ebonyi State Command of the State Security Services (SSS) with a sharp...
Strike: Why We Want To Organise Training For Union, Labour Leaders — Ngige
The Federal Government has mandated an eight-week course at the Michael Imoudu National Institute of Labour Studies for labour leaders in Nigeria. A statement from the Ministry of Labour and Employment, quoted the minister, Chris Ngige, as announcing this yesterday when he defended the ministry’s 2023 budget before the House of Representatives Committee on Labour. Ngige was quoted to have said...
Gov. Ikpeazu Expresses Shock Over Death Of Abia Former PDP Chairman
The Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has expressed shock over the passing on of a former State Chairman of the PDP, Chief Ndidi Okereke. The Governor describes the news of the death of heart breaking, utterly depressing and almost unbelievable, judging from the fact that the now Late Chief Okereke has been very active in affairs of government...
Court Suspends Nnamdi Kalu’s Trial Indefinitely
Federal High Court Abuja has adjourned indefinitely the trial of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu in the terrorism charges brought against him by the Federal Government. Presiding Judge, Justice Binta Nyako put off the trial sine die at the instance of Kanu pending the resolution of the Federal Government’s appeal against the October...
Primary Election That Produced Ikechi Emenike Was Strange To APC Guidelines — Justice Nyako
The federal high court in Abuja presided over by Justice Binta Nyako has released the last week's judgement which sacked High Chief Ikechi Emenike as the APC governorship candidate in Abia state and holds that the indirect primary election which produced Emenike was in total disobedience to a letter forwarded by the national leadership of APC to INEC that...
Buhari Assures Turkey Of Nigeria’s Support In Fight Against Terrorism
President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday assured Turkey of the continued support of Nigeria in the global war against terrorism. He condemned the terrorist bomb attack that claimed several lives and injured tens of others at a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul, Türkiye. Buhari, in a statement yesterday by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, described the attack as “despicable and cowardly”. He assured Turkish...
Crime: If Police Were Effective Half Of Govt Officials Should Be In Jail — SDP Presidential Candidate
Adewole Adebayo, Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), has said that if the police system in Nigeria was effective, half of those in government would be in jail. He stated this during the second series of presidential town-hall meeting organised by ARISE TV in collaboration with Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD). Adebayo said, “Let’s not run away from...
